| Show I 1 news N notes otes its ts a privilege to fo live lice in UTAH SALT LAKE it Is estimated that the mountain streams of utah can develop horsepower less than one tenth of which has been developed to date UTAH one fifth of the entire state of utah is with coal and the recoverable amount is estimated to be about tons with an additional tons classified as difficult to mine DUCHESNE oil shale deposits in uin tali basin show an aggregate thickness ot of from to feet and careful i sampling of an area of square miles indicates an oil content of 25 billion barrels the shale averages 42 gallons of oil per ton PROVO the recent storm has been a boon to fruit and other crops in utah county while some ot of the ripened strawberries may be covered with mud little fruit will be lost most crops will be greatly benefited by the storm especially the hay grain tomatoes and truck garden crops PAROWAN frost followed closely in the wake of sundays wind storm in parowan carowan Pa rowan and a similar cold wava visited the town monday night tuesday was more pleasant the wind sunday did considerable damage blowing down trees and breaking a large plate glass window in a local factory Y BRIGHAM CITY dry farm crops ranges and sugar beets were especially benefited in boxelder Box elder county by the sunday rainstorm the storm began saturday night and continued until monday morning and was general in this section damage to hay in the fields was slight by reason of the short duration of tho the s irm GARLAND factory street one ol of I 1 the main streets of garland and part of the state highway is now torn tarn up and is being newly graded and treated with a heavy coat ot of oil traffic through garland has been rapidly increasing the last few years with the growing tourist traffic and the increase ing population in the surrounding country EPHRAIM three cars ot of wool were shipped recently from the anderson brothers herd he andrew christensen and orval and den ben christensen Christen herds the evart jensen J 0 larsen and 0 C doke herds to the thomas wolstenholme sons company inc of philadelphia twenty cents a pound was advanced to the growers with a co contract that the wool will not be definitely sold until the market settles COALVILLE train service avei I 1 the new line of the union pacific around echo reservoir was started re bently when forces odthe of the railroad corn com pany began tearing up of the old line through the reservoir bed the beginning of service over this line is the culmination of about 18 months work on the part of the utah construction company and the union pacific company who contracted tor for the construction of the new line as a part of the construction program of the echo dam and reservoir farmington A rough estimate of the damage done sunday afternoon by tho the wind rain and hall hail that swept over davis county showed as follows farm crops cherries apricots r peaches small fruit tomatoes onions pens hay grain making a total of damage to buildings etc small buildings public buildings telephone lines and barns a total of making a grand total of SALT LAKE sheep inspected during the month of may as reported to the state stagg board of agriculture by thos redmond state sheep cheep inspector numbered of which were were classed as exposed and were dipped to eradicate scabies of the infected sheep 1400 were infected with scabies the larger number of exposed sheep came from grand county in san juan county exposed sheep were dipped sheep shearing has haa been completed according to the report in the central and southern parts of the state VERNAL trains are now running from mack colo to watson utah over the uintah railway companas comp anys tracks monday for the first time I 1 in n several weeks feeks the company successfully overcame the landslide that tore fore out a halt mile of track between at chee chea and baxters baxter 8 pass pa 3 and and covered it with feet of rock and dirt no difficulty was experienced in crossing tho the reconstructed track but no other trains were run tor for several days until the new fills several hundred teat feet jeep had bad settled to maka tho roa road entirely safe |
